Life Insurance as Technology of Care
Sofía Ugarte looks at life insurance as a market device. How do policyholders and their families experience the life insurance market? And what what role might kinship ties of care play? Read More
Social History of Money and Credit
Call for papers for workshop at Portland State University on “The Social History of Money and Credit” on May 22-24, 2014. Read More
Politicians go wild in Wongaland, but there are bigger fish to fry
Donncha Marron on the spectacle of politicians and experts targeting payday lending, while ignoring the role of poverty and social and economic precarity Read More
MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives
MoneyLab: a new site for researchers interested in digital experiments with revenue models and alternative payment forms and currencies Read More
The matter of the credit card
Why might the plastic in the plastic card card matter? Joe Deville finds out Read More
Everyday Debt and Credit: Special Issue of Cultural Studies
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Cultural Studies exploring how debt and credit circulate through the everyday and the intimate. Edited by Gregory J. Seigworth and Joe Deville. Expressions of interest by February 2014. Read More
Postdoc investigating digital & peer to peer finance
Full time post-doctoral position at Lancaster University investigating digital connectivity and peer-to-peer relationships in financial services Read More
Suspicious Money
An exclusive translation of an extract from Ariel Wilkis’ forthcoming book ‘Suspicious Money’, which explores how money has assumed a new role in the everyday life of the poor in Latin America Read More
An interview with Philip Mirowski
An interview with Philip Mirowski on Estudios de la Economía, including reflections on how Facebook teaches you to be a neoliberal agent and how the performativity programme ends up with sociologists recapitulating economists Read More
Sociology of financial markets PhD position
A new PhD scholarship in the sociology of financial markets has just been announced at Copenhagen Business School Read More
